From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 45539 Date: 2006-07-26
On 2006-07-26 13:16, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen wrote:
> A suggestion: hypostasis of /thémi 'sti/ 'it is law' => dat. 'by law',
> generating a stem thémist- 'law'.
Ingenious. That would make the "easy" -i-stem older than the "difficult"
consonantal variant, contrary to what's usually suggested. <tHemis
esti(n)> is a fixed phrase if there ever was one in Ancient Greek.